How's your year going so far? I found this rare and very friendly rubber boa last night, which certainly made my day! The California whipsnake I picked up earlier this year wasn't quite as patient with me picking him up. After getting bitten, I put on some gloves so I wouldn't run the risk of being started into dropping him if he did it again. It was still a great honor to get to know him for a few minutes!
Photo credit on the whipsnake photo: +Lori Hibbett. My hands were, um, a bit tied up at the time!
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+Alicia Harrison
Good work
Ugh, I hate snakes
he's a little cutey!
Try, "year of the tetanus shot" 😉
Lol @ Darren. Bad Ass pic tho!!
oh!
My year of the snake is going fantastically. I have acquired two more snakes so far this year.
great，but i don't like thoes,so crazy for me……LOL
Pretty cool
it helps us to wash out fear from our mind to some extents…I like snake …thank u…love+love
Wow
I remember many years back encountering a very small garter snake in a park near Livermore. In dealing with me, it's behavior mimicked what you'd expect of a rattlesnake – coiling, shaking its tail and trying to strike. Fun to watch for a about a 4" snake. My guess is that it was a good instinctive behavior that would at least confuse a potential attacker. If you can't dazzle 'em – or turn and kill the attacker, then baffle them silly, right?!
High Five for your snake friend, +Jeff Sullivan ! Nice photo-documentation, +Lori Hibbett !
i don't like snake i wonder how people could hold them thing nah
Nice
何か気持ち悪いですね。
What a beautiful snake. Gorgeous color. Stay safe, you guys.
OMG
Iiiiiiikkkkkkkkk
+Marianne Bush I was reading up on rubber boas today, and apparently these nice little snakes are so calm and are known not to bite, they are used in therapy to help people get over their fear of snakes. This only the third rubber boa I have found in 30+ years on the West Coast.
+mary smith and +Patrick Leo These little rubber boas don't bite because they have a tough and blunt tail, so it's difficult at first glance to see which end is their head. When threatened, they hide their head, and hit the attacking bird or rodent with their tail, as if it were their head, striking. That way the snakes usually only get attacked on their tail, and have better chances of survival.
After being held for a while, their main interest seems to be to get very close to your skin, to absorb your warmth. I guess you could say that they like to cuddle with us… it's about as far from scary as a snake can get!
Fortunately there are not very many species of poisonous snakes in the United States, and I have been interested in them all my life, so I knew that this one was very safe and harmless before I picked it up. (I don't pick up snakes when I'm travelling in other countries, where I am not as familiar with the local species.)
Tis so sweet that species likes to cuddle…i'd like to see it one dae…whoo…if u come to our country…just the sight of a snake frightens yah…..great work +Jeff Sullivan and +Lori Hibbert
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i'm small.., i'm hopeless.., i've been abused …….better call my bro' anaconda, i hope his starving right now…. )
太呕心了
Lovely snake 😉